Berlinale 2018 Lineup, Round 5

In just over a week now, the winter festival season will begin as Sundance opens on January 18 to run through the 28th. On January 24, the International Film Festival Rotterdam will open and run through February 4; see the entry on the lineup for all the latest additions.

The sixty-eighth Berlinale follows, running from February 15 through 25, and we’ll get to the lineup update in a moment. First, though, let’s note that SXSW has added Richard Linklater, Olivier Assayas, Melinda Gates, futurist Ray Kurzweil, Westworld showrunners and creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and more to the list of speakers for its 2018 edition running from March 9 through 18. Tribeca follows (April 18 through 29), and then, of course, the big one, Cannes, running from May 8 through 19. We haven’t yet mentioned here that Cate Blanchett will be presiding over the jury.

So the Berlinale’s announced that it’ll be welcoming 250 filmmakers from eighty-one countries to its Berlinale Talents program, essentially a very busy series of workshops, masterclasses, and the like. 128 women and 122 men, by the way.

The festival’s also announced the jury and the complete lineup for the Berlinale Shorts program. Filmmakers Diogo Costa Amarante, Jyoti Mistry, and Mark Toscano will be deciding who wins the Golden Bear for Best Short Film, the Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film), and the Audi Short Film Award, and which entry will be the Berlin Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards. The lineup: